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enHYDRAULIC UNIT RICHNESS & COMPLEXITYhttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/blogs/jdp/hydraulic-unit-richness-complexity
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Just published:</p>
<p><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.4211/full">Phillips, J.D., 2017. Geomorphic and hydraulic unit richness and complexity in a coastal plain river. <em>Earth Surface Processes and Landforms </em>42: 2623-2629. </a></p>
<p>The abstract is below, and a preprint version is available <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321597795_Geomorphic_and_hydraulic_unit_richness_and_complexity_in_a_coastal_plain_river">here</a>. <img alt="" height="390" src="/sites/default/files/blogs_images/abst_4.png" width="789" /></p>
<p><em>Posted 6 December 2017</em></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/geoscience" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geoscience</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/water" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">water</a></li></ul></div>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 21:21:42 +0000jdp367692 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduPATH EXTINCTION & REINFORCEMENThttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/blogs/jdp/path-extinction-reinforcement
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The development and change over time (evolution) of geomorphic, soil, hydrological, and ecosystems (Earth surface systems; ESS) is often, perhaps mostly, characterized by multiple potential developmental trajectories. That is, rather than an inevitable monotonic progression toward a single stable state or climax or mature form, often there exist multiple stable states or potentially unstable outcomes, and multiple possible developmental pathways. Until late in the 20th century, basic tenets of geosciences, ecology, and pedology emphasized single-path, single-outcome conceptual models such as classical vegetation succession; development of mature, climax, or zonal soils; or attainment of steady-state or some other form of stable equilibrium. As evidence accumulated of ESS evolution with, e.g., nonequilibrium dynamics, alternative stable states, divergent evolution, and path dependency, the "headline" was the existence of <u>&gt;</u> 2 potential pathways, contesting and contrasting with the single-path frameworks. Now it is appropriate to address the question of why the number of actually observed pathways is relatively small.The purpose of this post is to explore why some developmental sequences are rare vs. common; why some are non-recurring (path extinction), and some are reinforced.</p>
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<p><strong>Path Extinction</strong></p>
<p>When considering all possible pathways that do not violate governing laws and principles, some are inherently unlikely. For instance, pathways involving infrequent, low-probability events (e.g., bolide impacts, mega-floods, volcanic super-eruptions, EF5 tornadoes) will be far less common than pathways that do not require these events. Independently of these variations in probability, this section considers why some evolutionary pathways that do occur may be non-recurring, or at least inhibited in reoccurrence. It is axiomatic that path extinction is partly dependent on time scales. Pathways driven by or associated with glacial-interglacial cycles, for instance, cannot recur over shorter time periods.</p>
<p><em>Literal Extinction</em></p>
<p>Environmental change may eliminate some necessary controls or resources of a pathway, such that it cannot reoccur. For instance, there exist types of paleosols that do not have even an approximate modern analog, because their pedogenesis was influenced by, e.g., an atmospheric composition that no longer exists, and/or by extinct biota with no modern analogs. Over shorter time scales, landscape evolution, pedogenesis, or succession patterns linked to, e.g. a glacial climate cannot recur in currently unglaciated zones until a new glaciation occurs.</p>
<p><em>Unfavorable Outcomes</em></p>
<p>Some ESS evolutionary paths may lead to outcomes or states that are suboptimal, inefficient, or dangerous for biota involved, or that are dynamically unstable, vulnerable or fragile. With respect to, e.g., animal ecology, these bad outcomes condition against future choices and behaviors that involve those paths. This may occur due to conditioning, or learning/teaching to avoid these behaviors, or because death or lack of reproductive success culls any genetic tendency toward these behaviors.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/resize/blogs_images/frost-400x273.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 273px;" width="400" height="273" /></p>
<p><em>Frost flowers occur when ice is extruded from long-stemmed plants under freezing conditions when the ground is not already frozen. They are fragile and unstable. (Photo credit: greatwhitenorth.blogspot.com)</em></p>
<p>With respect to (partially or wholly) abiotic features such as landforms, soils, or hydrologic systems, if the end-state of a pathway results in instability or fragility, the state simply does not last long. Therefore, given our dependence in many cases on reconstructing pathways from historical evidence, they are less likely to be observed or preserved (e.g., in stratigraphy). This vulnerability and instability may thus result in a kind of apparent extinction, where things that do happen are simply rarely, if ever, observed.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/resize/blogs_images/IMAG0027-400x280.JPG" style="width: 400px; height: 280px;" width="400" height="280" /></p>
<p><em>Hillslopes that develop to slopes steeper than the angle of repose eventually fail, as did this one in north Queensland, Australia. Thus the unstable steeper outcomes do not last and are not preserved. </em></p>
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<p><em>Negative Feedbacks</em></p>
<p>The biotic phenomena mentioned above constitute negative feedbacks against certain pathways, reducing their future occurrence. These phenomena may also apply to partially abiotic ESS features, too, due to the effects of ecosystem engineering and niche construction. For example, chemical weathering feedbacks may limit runaway global cooling or warmer to global icehouse or greenhouse conditions. Landforms and soils may absorb many environmental effects of biota, thereby buffering the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere from some biotically-induced changes. These phenomena essentially prune potential evolutionary pathways.</p>
<p>More generally, many evolutionary pathways in ESS are inherently externally or self-limited. <a href="http://www.envision.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/modeswitch.pdf">Phillips (2014)</a> gives examples for geomorphic systems involving threshold-mediated modulation, whereby exceedence of thresholds (for instance, positive or negative mass balances) may limit development on a particular trajectory.</p>
<p><em>Irreversible and Self-Limiting Phenomena</em></p>
<p>Weathering processes are often irreversible, and chemical weathering may depend on the availability of weatherable minerals. These are examples of situations where, at least over many time scales, some paths may be unrepeatable due to material limitations. A trajectory involving the weathering of a granitic rock mass, for instance, cannot be repeated (in that location). For another example, once the carbonate rock in a terrane has been consumed, pathways involving karstification are no longer possible.</p>
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<p><em>Weathering of the basalt leading to development of this Phillipines weathering profile is irreversible (photo credit: V.B. Asio). </em></p>
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<p><em>Path Instability</em></p>
<p>In this case instability refers to developmental sequences themselves, rather than states at the end of (or along) the sequence. Path instability means that once a developmental path is perturbed, it does not return to its pre-disturbance trajectory, but takes a new pathway. This concept is discussed <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271385340_The_Robustness_of_Chronosequences">here</a> in the context of chronosequences, and examples given of soil chronosequences.</p>
<p><strong>Path Reinforcement</strong></p>
<p>Here we consider why and how some pathways, however probable their initial occurrence, may be enhanced or encouraged with respect to recurrences. Pathways dependent on frequent, common events are more likely to recur, other things being equal. Thus, for instance, post-fire vegetation succession patterns may be common in environments characterized by frequent fire, and post-flood recovery pathways may be recurrent in rivers that flood frequently.</p>
<p><em>Selection</em></p>
<p>The most fundamental phenomenon in path reinforcement is selection. While Darwinian natural selection strictly applies to individual organisms, selection in a broader sense applies to ESS in general, with a probabilistic tendency for development and preservation of more stable, efficient, and resistant structures and pathways. I have expounded on this in several previous posts: <a href="https://geography.as.uky.edu/blogs/jdp/perpetual-quest-efficiency-and-stability-earth-surface-systems">1</a>, <a href="https://geography.as.uky.edu/blogs/jdp/perpetual-quest-efficiency-part-2-gradient-and-morphological-selection">2</a>, <a href="https://geography.as.uky.edu/blogs/jdp/perpetual-quest-efficiency-part-3-why-isn%E2%80%99t-everything-always-becoming-more-efficient">3</a>. Thus we can expect that evolutionary trajectories leading to these outcomes are more likely than others.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/resize/blogs_images/IMG_3435-600x450.JPG" style="width: 600px; height: 450px;" width="600" height="450" /></p>
<p><em>Channels are the most efficient way to move water. Thus the evolution of hydrologic systems repeatedly leads to the development of channels (Sabine River, TX/LA).</em></p>
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<p><em>Resistance and Resilience</em></p>
<p>Pathways leading to outcomes that are resistant to change or disturbance, or resilient (able to recover) will be more often observed and preserved. Thus, independently of selection for resistance and dynamical stability, this can lead to apparent reinforcement due to more common recording.</p>
<p><img alt="" height="663" src="/sites/default/files/blogs_images/yahoofalls001.jpg" width="497" /></p>
<p><em>Sandstone often occurs with less resistant rock in sedimentary sequence. Due to resistance selection during erosional dissection, sandstone ridgetops are a recurring feature in areas of eroded sedimentary rock (Big South Fork National Recreation Area, Kentucky). </em></p>
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<p><em>Path Stability</em></p>
<p>Again, this refers to stability of developmental sequences themselves, rather than system states. Some pathways are dynamically stable, and resume following perturbations. Some generic examples are given in <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271385340_The_Robustness_of_Chronosequences">this paper</a>. In general, divergent radiation-type sequences are highly robust to disturbances. However, due to the nature of such pathways, while the general structure is path-stable, the specific divergent outcomes may be quite variable. Linear sequential and some convergent patterns are also somewhat robust to disturbance. Thus, where classic linear successional sequences apply, some path stability occurs.</p>
<p><strong>Final comments</strong></p>
<p>Early in my 35-year scientific career I began puzzling over the deviations from predicted pathways and outcomes based on classic models of e.g., steady-state equilibrium, convergence to climaxes, repeated cycles, etc. Now, having been awakened to the vast number of possibilities of Earth surface system evolution, my puzzling is reversed—how are the apparently limitless possibilities distilled into a still large, but much smaller than limitless, range of historical trajectories? This post reflects a first effort to think through how some of those possible pathways are pruned, while others are encouraged.</p>
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<p><em>Posted 6 December, 2017</em></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/geoscience" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geoscience</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li></ul></div>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 12:28:23 +0000jdp367690 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduTHE GEOMORPHOLOGICAL NICHE OF TREEShttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/blogs/jdp/geomorphological-niche-trees
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In a <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229118655_Landscape_evolution_space_and_the_relative_importance_of_geomorphic_processes_and_controls">2009 article</a> I introduced the concept of a <em>geomorphological niche</em>, defined as the resources available to drive or support a particular geomorphic process (the concept has not caught on). The niche is defined in terms of a <em>landscape evolution space </em>(LES), given by</p>
<p><img alt="" height="49" src="/sites/default/files/blogs_images/LES.png" width="179" /></p>
<p>where <em>H</em> is height above a base level, rho is the density of the geological parent material, <em>g </em>is the gravity constant, and <em>A </em>is surface area. The <em>k</em>’s are factors representing the inputs of solar energy and precipitation, and <em>P<sub>g</sub></em>represents the geomorphically significant proportion of biological productivity (see <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229118655_Landscape_evolution_space_and_the_relative_importance_of_geomorphic_processes_and_controls">this</a> for the background and justification).</p>
<p>The LES and geomorphological niche are dynamic, and in the course of some recent work on biogeomorphic effects of trees on regolith development, I got to thinking about how they might change over the life of a single tree.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/resize/blogs_images/DSCN3245-600x450.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 450px;" width="600" height="450" /></p>
<p><i>Root system of a pine tree exposed by shoreline erosion, Craven County, N.C.</i></p>
<p>The phenomenon of concern here is acceleration of weathering due to the effects of roots, and bioturbation and disturbance of underlying rock by root growth. Where regolith thickness is less than tree rooting depth, roots often penetrate rock joints, fractures, and bedding planes. There they funnel moisture, produce CO<sub>2</sub> through respiration that helps drive dissolution and other chemical weathering processes, and host bacteria and fungi that are involved in weathering. Further roots and associated organic matter acidify soil water, increasing its weathering potential, and thickening of roots as they grow keeps these processes in contact with fresh rock.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/resize/blogs_images/DSCN4250-400x300.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" width="400" height="300" /></p>
<p><em>Limestone bedrock mined by uprooted trees, central Kentucky.</em></p>
<p>The base level in this case could be considered as the bedrock weathering front, and the surface area that associated with the root-occupied area of the tree. I assume that <em>P<sub>g</sub></em>is proportional to net primary productivity. Over the life of a tree (centuries at most), the climate parameters <em>(k</em>) are constant. Mean density generally decreases as regolith develops, as fresh rock generally has a density of 2600 kg m<sup>-3</sup>, soil of 1000 to 1700 kg m<sup>-3</sup>, and weathered rock in between.</p>
<p>The easiest and most common thing to measure as trees grow is their diameter. Luckily, both the surface area and depth of roots vary systematically with diameter—area generally increases as the square of dbh (diameter at breast height). Trees generally get larger as they get older, of course, but the rate of growth almost always slows down over time. Net primary productivity (NPP) tends to increase rapidly as a forest stand becomes established, reaches a maximum in young stands, and then declines with age. While this has been studied mostly with respect to forest stands rather than individual trees, it is reasonable to assume that the decline in growth rates of a tree over time reflects a decline in NPP.</p>
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<p><em>Tree roots, soil, and bedrock in central Kentucky.</em></p>
<p>So, back to the LES equation and the geomorphological niche: As a tree grows:</p>
<p><em>H </em>may increase due to tree effects in thickening or deepening the regolith. In any case, unless there is surface removal by erosion, it does not decrease.</p>
<p>Rho (density) may decrease over time due to mass lost in solution.</p>
<p><em>A </em>increases steadily, but at a decelerating rate as the tree matures.</p>
<p><em>P<sub>g</sub></em>increases at first, and then declines over time.</p>
<p><em>g </em>and the <em>k </em>factors remain constant.</p>
<p>My guess is that the net result is an expanding geomorphological niche over the life of a tree, though that will depend on the relative rates of change of the increasing and decreasing factors.</p>
<p>The conceptual model does not account for the mechanical energy associated with uprooting, which becomes more likely and has a greater impact (other things being equal, which of course they never are) as trees become older and larger. </p>
<p><em>Posted 4 December 2017</em></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/geoscience" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geoscience</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/ecology" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ecology</a></li></ul></div>Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:01:54 +0000jdp367675 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduBREAKAGE VS. UPROOTING & HILLSLOPE GEOMORPHOLOGYhttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/blogs/jdp/breakage-vs-uprooting-hillslope-geomorphology
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Just published in <em>Geomorphology:</em></p>
<p>Samonil, P., Danek, P., Adam, D., Phillips, J.D. 2017. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X17304014?_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=high&amp;_origin=gateway&amp;_docanchor=&amp;md5=b8429449ccfc9c30159a5f9aeaa92ffb&amp;dgcid=raven_sd_via_email">Breakage or uprooting: how tree death affects hillslope processes in old-growth temperate forests</a>. <em>Geomorphology </em>299: 276-284. </p>
<p>The abstract is below:</p>
<p><img alt="" height="554" src="/sites/default/files/blogs_images/abs.png" width="821" /></p>
<p><img alt="" height="200" src="/sites/default/files/blogs_images/1-s2.0-S0169555X17304014-fx1.jpg" width="484" /></p>
<p><em>Posted 14 November 2017</em></p>
<p> </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/geoscience" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geoscience</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/ecology" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ecology</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tag/forestry" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">forestry</a></li></ul></div>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:29:15 +0000jdp367487 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduIntroduction to New Maps Plushttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/video/introduction-new-maps-plus
<div class="field field-name-field-embed field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Embed code:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">&lt;iframe src=&#039;https://player.vimeo.com/video/178387718?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=7EACDC&#039; width=720 height=405 frameborder=0&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p></p><p></p><p class="first">Why New Maps Plus?</p> <p>The New Maps Plus graduate programs at the University of Kentucky offer students a challenging, intensive, digital mapping curriculum that emphasizes the acquisition of technical skills—coding, GIS, web development—while also preparing students to critically address the complexity of today’s information ecosystem.</p> <p>Read more about how New Maps Plus is unique: <a href="http://newmapsplus.uky.edu/all-about" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">newmapsplus.uky.edu/all-about</a></p><p><strong></strong></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/gis" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">gis</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/mapping" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">mapping</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/maps" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">maps</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tag/new" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">new</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tag/kentucky" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">kentucky</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-6"><a href="/tag/online" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">online</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-7"><a href="/tag/graduate" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">graduate</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-8"><a href="/tag/university" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">university</a></li></ul></div>Wed, 10 Aug 2016 22:08:40 +0000Anonymous312102 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduEighth Summer Institute in Economic Geography Held at UKhttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/eighth-summer-institute-economic-geography-held-uk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The University of Kentucky <a href="https://www.as.uky.edu/">College of Arts and Sciences</a>last week hosted the <a href="http://www.econgeog.net/">Summer Institute in Economic Geography</a>. With a 10-year history in supporting economic geography, the college and its Department of Geography welcomed young scholars from across the globe to Lexington. This is the first time the institute has returned to the U.S. since 2006 when it was hosted by the University of Wisconsin at Madison.</p>
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<p>A group of UK geography faculty worked collaboratively to bring the institute to campus. <a href="https://geography.as.uky.edu/users/geg207">Sue Roberts</a>, <a href="https://geography.as.uky.edu/users/zook">Matt Zook</a>, <a href="https://geography.as.uky.edu/users/awood6">Andy Wood</a> and <a href="https://geography.as.uky.edu/users/msame2">Michael Samers</a> won support from the <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/">National Science Foundation</a> to fund the economic geography institute visit.</p>
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<p>The institute was designed to create a space for sustained discussion about key frontiers of research in economic geography, including the ways in which new markets, products and industries emerge; the variety of finance and investment practices across the world; and how income, benefits and problems are structured throughout the global economy.</p>
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<p>Attendees were able to observe the connections of Kentucky to the global system through a series of field-based observations in the automotive and agricultural industries of the Bluegrass. Participants also shared insights about how to craft a successful career path in the field and set research agendas for future work.</p>
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<p>Co-organizer, geography Professor Sue Roberts said, “Ten years ago, the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts and Sciences supported a strategic cluster hire to build on existing strengths in economic geography here. It feels really great now to be among the leading (research and teaching) clusters in this field and to be able to showcase UK to this group of scholars.”</p>
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<p>UK co-organizer, geography Professor and Fulbright Scholar Matt Zook said, “We are excited about the week’s activities, even though we know we will be exhausted at the end of it all.” He and the faculty team agree that events such as the <a href="http://www.econgeog.net/">Summer Institute in Economic Geography</a> at UK have had a major positive impact in human geography and has greatly enhanced the reputation of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.</p>
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<p><em>UK is the University for Kentucky. At UK, we are educating more students, treating more patients with complex illnesses and conducting more research and service than at any time in our 150-year history. To read more about the UK story and how you can support continued investment in your university and the Commonwealth, visit <a href="http://www.uky.edu/uk4ky">uky.edu/uk4ky</a>. #uky4ky</em></p>
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<p class="first">Part of the 44th Annual Ellen Churchill Semple Day</p>
<p>Aprill 22, 2016 Department of Geography College of Arts &amp; Sciences University of Kentucky</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-embed field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Embed code:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">&lt;iframe src=&#039;https://player.vimeo.com/video/161633625?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=7EACDC&#039; width=720 height=405 frameborder=0&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p></p><p></p><p class="first">Mrach 25, 2016 - 3:30pm 234 Classroom Building Rich Donohue, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky</p><p><strong></strong></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/uk" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">UK</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/uky" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">uky</a></li></ul></div>Thu, 05 May 2016 16:13:09 +0000Anonymous309059 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduNew Maps Speaker: Sarah Williams "More Than Data: It's What You Do With It"https://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/video/new-maps-speaker-sarah-williams-more-data-its-what-you-do-it
<div class="field field-name-field-embed field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Embed code:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">&lt;iframe src=&#039;https://player.vimeo.com/video/158047390?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=7EACDC&#039; width=720 height=405 frameborder=0&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p></p><p></p><p class="first"></p><p><strong></strong></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/uk" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">UK</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/uky" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">uky</a></li></ul></div>Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:16:50 +0000Anonymous308014 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduLove is...https://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/video/love
<div class="field field-name-field-embed field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Embed code:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">&lt;iframe src=&#039;https://player.vimeo.com/video/144413493?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=7EACDC&#039; width=720 height=405 frameborder=0&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p></p><p></p><p class="first">The 22nd annual Conference on Critical Geography was hosted at the University of Kentucky this past October. In between sessions, conference participants had the opportunity to participate in a video booth project, titled Love Is.... Here, participants were asked to share their thoughts and opinions on the nature of love.</p><p><strong></strong></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/uk" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">UK</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tags/video" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">video</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tag/conference" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">conference</a></li></ul></div>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 15:57:04 +0000Anonymous292536 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduCindi Katz Keynote, "Revisiting Minor Theory," at 2015 Critical Geography Conferencehttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/video/cindi-katz-keynote-2015-critical-geography-conference
<div class="field field-name-field-embed field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Embed code:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">&lt;iframe src=&#039;https://player.vimeo.com/video/144656746?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=7EACDC&#039; width=720 height=405 frameborder=0&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p></p><p></p><p class="first">Minor theory is a way of doing theory differently, of working inside out, of fugitive moves and emergent practices interstitial with ‘major’ productions of knowledge. To do minor theory is to make conscious use of displacement so that new subjectivities, spatialities, and temporalities might be marked and produced in spaces of betweenness that reveal the limits of the major as it is transformed along with the minor. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ‘minor literature,’ I wrote about minor theory twenty years ago causing a ‘minor’ stir, but little else. In the past year or so the idea of the minor has surfaced in several places, not least as the theme of this conference. Asking what might underlie this ‘surgence’ of interest, I will look at some of the political, social, cultural relations and conditions of the present in Geography and in the worlds we inhabit to think about what possibilities minor theory offers for thinking and acting differently in the face of growing economic inequality at all scales, persistent violence against people of color, intensifying environmental crises, joblessness, and social relations of production and reproduction that remain exploitive and oppressive in their articulations of race, class, gender, and sexuality.</p><p><strong></strong></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/kentucky" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">kentucky</a></li></ul></div>Wed, 04 Nov 2015 21:21:09 +0000Anonymous292414 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduEnforcing equality: court rulings, indigenous women, and political participation in Oaxaca, Mexicohttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/enforcing-equality-court-rulings-indigenous-women-and-political-participation-oaxaca-mexico
<div class="field field-name-field-asdate field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">09/16/2015 - <span class="date-display-start" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-09-16T15:00:00-04:00">3:00pm</span> to <span class="date-display-end" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-09-16T16:30:00-04:00">4:30pm</span></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-location field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Location:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">231 White Hall Classroom Building</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-presenter field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Dr. Holly Worthen</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;">
<font color="#1A1A1A" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Within the last decade, Mexico´s federal electoral courts have taken unprecedented steps to promote affirmative action in favor of women´s political participation. At the federal, state, and municipal levels, this has largely meant rulings that support legislation on gender-based quotas for public posts. A stumbling block to this affirmative action initiative has been the predominately indigenous municipalities that hold local elections through tradition and custom instead of universal suffrage and secret ballot. Legally recognized as part of indigenous people´s collective right to self-determination, election through custom and tradition has been difficult to fit into existing juridical logics of gender equality. In the past three years, however, a growing number of electoral conflicts appealed to the federal courts have brought the question of indigenous women´s political participation to the forefront. I examine several of these cases to explore how the courts mediate between the question of collective self-determination and individual women´s rights, how they seek to promote a liberal notion of gender equality, and how women and communities are responding to their rulings in unexpected ways. I argue that what is at stake is more than just women´s political participation; rather, these rulings reflect contemporary contestations over gender, indigeneity, modernity, and democracy in Mexico more broadly. </font></div>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium;">Holly Worthen is a Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociológicas at the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium;">She received her Phd in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work focuses on gender, migration, development and indigenous politics.</font><br /><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium;"> </font></div>
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</ul>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:12:06 +0000lmo234281195 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduGeography Welcomes Carolyn Finneyhttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/geography-welomes-carolyn-finney
<div class="featured-nodes-image"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/CarolynFinney-Geography.jpg" alt="" /></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Department of Geography is proud to announce that Carolyn Finney will be joining the department's faculty this fall. She most recently was in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California-Berkeley.<br /><br />
“Her research interests are broad, and coalesce around questions of difference, identity, nature, and place. Her work is exciting in the way it challenges the academy’s traditional boundaries of research, teaching, and service; and her commitment to public engagement in a variety of guises and settings also requires a methodological attention to participation, partnerships, collaboration, and perhaps even entails a radical epistemology. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Dr. Finney’s book, </span><em style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Black Spaces, White Spaces</em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;"> out last year, UNC press, widely noted and favorably received; and has drawn much attention, including in the popular culture media. But Carolyn already was drawing attention in many quarters; with grants from Bechtel Foundation, the NEH, the NPS, Mellon Post Doc at Wellesley, and many others.”</span></p>
<p>--Richard Schein<br />
Chair, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky</p>
<p><strong>&gt;&gt;Visit Carolyn Finney's website <a href="http://carolynfinney.com/index.html" target="_blank">here</a></strong><br />
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<div class="featured-nodes-image"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/GEO-Injustice.jpg" alt="" /></div><div class="field field-name-field-asdate field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-04-28T15:30:00-04:00">04/28/2015 - 3:30pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-location field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Location:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Whitehall Classroom Bldg. - Room 214</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-presenter field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Dr. Clive Barnett, Professor of Geography &amp; Social Theory at the University of Exeter, UK</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(25, 31, 19); font-family: proxima-nova, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Justice has been a reference point for radical and critical geographers for more than 40 years. Geographers’ engagements with issues of justice, however, have always been defined by wariness toward political philosophies of justice. These are variously considered too liberal, too distributive in their orientation, or too universalizing. The wariness, in short, indicates the parameters that define the prevalent spatial imaginary of radical and critical human geography: self-consciously oppositional, concerned with the production of structural relations, sensitive to context and difference. Barnett explore two overlapping strands of contemporary political philosophy and political theory that have recently developed arguments for ‘the priority of injustice’ in the elaboration of democratic theory. </span></p>
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</ul>Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:26:29 +0000brconn2277076 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduSecor Named First Sheikh Islamic Studies Professorhttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/secor-named-first-sheikh-islamic-studies-professor
<div class="featured-nodes-image"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Anna-Secor_REV.jpg" alt="" /></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>By Gail Hairston</p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">(April 8, 2015)</strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;"> ‒ </span><a href="http://geography.as.uky.edu/users/ajseco2" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">Anna Secor</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">, professor of geography, social theory, and gender and women’s studies at the University of Kentucky </span><a href="http://www.as.uky.edu/" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">College of Arts and Sciences</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">, has been named the university’s first Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Islamic Studies Professor.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">The endowed professorship was created by Dr. Hamid Hussain Sheikh Sr. (a Lexington obstetrics and gynecology specialist) and his wife Amy Lee Sheikh, in memory of his mother Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh. A native of Lahore, Pakistan, Hajja Sheikh was active in her community and a leader in her faith. Although she did not receive a formal education, she held a strong belief in education and encouraged all eight of her children to pursue a college education.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">“One of my main goals is to counter anti-Islam sentiments through educational means by Muslims and non-Muslim university scholars,” said Sheikh. “Against the prevalent concept of the world, honoring all women, especially one’s mother, is a key principle of Islam. I am thankful to UK, (College of Arts and Sciences) Dean Kornbluh, Laura Sutton (of the college’s development office) and all involved in honoring my mother, bestowing her with the title of professorship.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">“My late mother was a kind, pious, generous, education-loving lady,” said Sheikh. “And I know she would be greatly pleased that the University of Kentucky chose to give her the rare honor of a professorship named after her, and she would be just as pleased that another woman, Dr. Anna Secor, is the inaugural professor.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">The new professorship will be devoted to the enhancement of Islamic studies education through the examination of existing research coupled with the generation of new ideas, concepts and research findings in the areas of Islamic culture, history or civilization.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">“I am honored to be named the first Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Islamic Studies Professor,” said Secor. “This position provides a wonderful opportunity for me to deepen a research agenda that reflects my commitment to enhancing understanding of the Muslim world. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">“Turkey is such an interesting place for Islamic Studies because it is a secular, democratic state with a majority Muslim population. I am especially interested in how Islamic values and lifestyles are actively transforming ideas about secularism, politics, economics, and daily life in Turkey.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Secor’s background and research interests complement perfectly the goals of the Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh professorship. She earned her undergraduate degree at Oberlin College and her master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Colorado. Today, her research interests are political geography, gender, social theory and the Middle East. Her research centers on a political-geographic question: How do spatial processes – such as those that demarcate territories and bodies, inclusions and exclusions – produce political subjects?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Recently, Secor was awarded a $191,000 National Science Foundation grant for her research proposal titled “The Role of Religion in Public Life in Turkey.” She will collaborate with Pervin Gokariksel of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to examine how religion interacts with the secular and political world. Specifically, they will conduct an empirical investigation of the varying practices and attitudes concerning the public role of Islam in Turkish society, with added focus on the devout Sunni Muslims. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Secor has published other research based on her ongoing fieldwork in Turkey. For example, in a recent National Science Foundation research project “The Veil, the Gaze and Ethics” Secor and Banu Gökariksel of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill analyzed Turkey’s successful </span><a href="http://veilingfashion.unc.edu/about.php" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">veiling-fashion industry</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">, which in recent years has melded </span><a href="http://veilingfashion.unc.edu/index.php" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">fashion trends with Muslim mores</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">, and how it reflects and impacts changing social, religious and political conditions of the region.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">In her online biography, Secor explains, “The strands of my work – on the state, on the veil, on Islam, on the psyche – are the fields of my own struggle to understand how interiorities and exteriorities of various kinds (territorial, corporeal, psychic) are made and unmade, their very distinction nothing more than an effect of the impossibility of ever fixing the boundary between them.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Thanks to the Sheikh family, now Secor has more latitude to further explore the intriguing juxtapositions of society and individuals.</span></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/college-arts-sciences" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">college of arts &amp; sciences</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/gender-and-womens-studies" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">gender and womens studies</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/social-theory" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">social theory</a></li></ul></div>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 15:19:59 +0000trra223277001 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduMy Map is Better than Yours: Competitive Cartography in China/Japan Territorial Dispute over Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands in East China Seahttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/my-map-better-yours-competitive-cartography-chinajapan-territorial-dispute-over-senkaku-diaoyu
<div class="field field-name-field-asdate field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-03-05T14:00:00-05:00">03/05/2015 - 2:00pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-location field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Location:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">201 White Hall Classroom Building </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-presenter field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Professor Unryu Suganuma, Department of International Studies, J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p>
<p>This event is sponsored by the Confucius Institute, Department of Geography, International Studies and Japan Study Program, and China Program in the College of Arts and Sciences.<p></p></p>
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</ul>Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:52:52 +0000brconn2265524 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduPanel Discussion to Focus on Cuba-U.S. Relationshttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/panel-discussion-focus-cuba-us-relations
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>By Yan Wang</p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">(Feb. 23, 2015)</strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;"> </span><strong style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">—</strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;"> A panel discussion about Cuba and U.S. relations will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in the UK Athletics Association Auditorium in Young Library.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">“We have such an incredible variety of perspectives and areas of expertise across the UK community, and the shift in US-Cuba relations is an ideal opportunity to let faculty, staff and students benefit from that expertise,” said Susan Carvalho, associate provost for internationalization, interim associate provost and dean of the graduate school and moderator of the panel discussion. “I know that the discussion will be enlightening for all of us, as we re-examine our own views, as well as broaden our understanding of alternative viewpoints.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">The panel discussion will focus on Cuba and U.S. relations and the U.S. Cuba embargo. Panelists include:</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Enrico Mario Santí. </strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Santí is the William T. Bryan professor of Hispanic studies at UK. Before coming to UK, Santí taught at Duke, Cornell and Georgetown. Santí has devoted books to Cuban figures, such as José Martí and Fernando Ortiz, and he has served on a number of editorial boards. In 1998, the Southern California Institute of Cuban-American Culture awarded him its highest award, the “Palma Espinada” Prize for his life and career achievement. Recently, Santí wrote a </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/opinion/keep-the-cuban-embargo.html?_r=0" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">letter to the editor</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;"> in response to an article about Cuba published by "The New York Times."</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Peter Berres. </strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Berres is the assistant dean for student affairs in the College of Health Sciences at UK and an instructor in UK’s Political Science department. Berres will lead an Education Abroad program in Cuba this summer that will help students develop a greater understanding of Cuban life, Cuba’s political and societal position in the Caribbean and Central America and Cuban- American relations.</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Luciano Cruz. </strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Cruz is an assistant professor of Spanish language at the University of Cincinnati, Clermont College. He was born in Cuba in 1969 and immigrated to Chile in 1990. In 2009 he earned his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky. He specializes in Latin American and Cuban literature as well as the relationship between literature and the construction of national identities. Cruz keeps strong ties to his native country not only in his line of research, but also by regular trips to Cuba, where he still has relatives and loved ones.</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Kathleen Montgomery. </strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Montgomery is an associate professor in the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at UK. Before joining the Patterson School, Montgomery spent more than a decade leading USAID-funded trade projects as ‘Chief of Party’. These assignments include the East Africa Trade Hub in Nairobi, the Trade Facilitation Project in Ramallah, West Bank and the Southern Africa Trade Hub in Gabarone. Montgomery’s expertise with international trade, development and international economics will enrich the discussion.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">The panel discussion is hosted by the </span><a href="http://www.uky.edu/international" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">UK International Center</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">, which leads internationalization efforts at the University of Kentucky with the support of the International Advisory Council, a group of faculty and administrators representing each of the University’s 16 colleges plus other key academic units.</span></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/college-arts-sciences" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">college of arts &amp; sciences</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/mcllc" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">mcllc</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/political-science" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">political science</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/international-studies" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">international studies</a></li></ul></div>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:48:07 +0000trra223265454 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduJump Starting Success: Whitney M. Young Scholarshttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/jump-starting-success-whitney-m-young-scholars
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>By Guy Spriggs</p>
<p>For many high school students, summer is little more than a break from school, offering the chance to relax, travel, or maybe even work at a summer job.</p>
<p>For the talented participants in the <a href="http://www.lincolnfdn.org/educational-programs/whitney-m-young/" target="_blank">Whitney M. Young Scholars Program</a>, the summer of 2014 offered the opportunity to spend two weeks gaining invaluable college experience on UK’s campus as part of a special collaboration between the <a href="http://www.uky.edu/Diversity/" target="_blank">UK’s Office of Institutional Diversity</a> and the <a href="http://www.lincolnfdn.org/" target="_blank">Lincoln Foundation</a>, a Louisville-based institution dedicated to educational enrichment.</p>
<p>Started in 1990 – since becoming the hallmark of the Lincoln Foundation’s educational efforts – the Whitney M. Young Scholars Program prepares academically talented, economically disadvantaged students for future courses in math, science and technology. Each summer, the program offers members – or scholars – in grades 10-through-12 the opportunity to gain academic experience on a university campus as part of a summer institute.</p>
<p>This year’s summer institute at UK was organized by <a href="http://www.uky.edu/Diversity/drjacksonbio.html" target="_blank">Judy Jackson</a>, vice president for institutional diversity, and Rosalyn Robinson, assistant director of the <a href="http://www.uky.edu/MLKCC/" target="_blank">Martin Luther King Jr Cultural Center</a>. The visiting scholars attended daily classes led by graduate students <a href="https://ees.as.uky.edu/users/clpe229" target="_blank">Cara Peterman</a> (<a href="https://ees.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">Earth and Environmental Sciences</a>) and <a href="https://geography.as.uky.edu/users/dmlaw2" target="_blank">Derek Law</a> (<a href="https://geography.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">Geography</a>), as well as faculty member <a href="https://english.as.uky.edu/users/rsdavi2" target="_blank">Rynetta Davis</a> (<a href="https://english.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">English</a>).</p>
<p>For Robinson, this partnership with the Lincoln Foundation made it possible to bring together partners from all over UK’s campus, allowing the scholars to really experience life on a college campus.</p>
<p>“It’s not a matter of recruiting the students to UK, but making sure they have access to college, that these students get an education,” she explained. “Our office is here to recruit and retain students from diverse backgrounds and underrepresented identities, and this program is so important because it helps students truly be academically prepared for whatever institution they decide to attend.”</p>
<p>In addition to the aforementioned daily classes, Robinson organized numerous sessions on professional development, providing a holistic approach to fully understanding what college is. Presentations focused on such topics as academic achievement and enhancement, diversity and multicultural awareness, college adjustment, and networking and professionalism.</p>
<p>The visiting Young Scholars also engaged in community service in the Lexington area – working with the <a href="http://www.intlbookproject.org/" target="_blank">International Book Project</a> – and visited the <a href="http://freedomcenter.org/" target="_blank">National Underground Railroad Freedom Center</a> in Cincinnati.</p>
<p>While these activities were enriching for the participating scholars, Robinson was similarly affected by her exposure to the program. “The Lincoln Foundation really works with these students. They are so bright, so smart, so motivated…in many ways they’re neck-and-neck with my college students,” she said.</p>
<p>As part of the program, Robinson and Jackson reached out to the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) to create a short course promoting majors in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The department was happy to participate, and Peterman saw this as a valuable opportunity to expand how students generally perceive STEM majors and geology.</p>
<p>“Not a lot of people know about geology, and when they think about it they imagine we just sit around and look at rocks,” she explained. “We want them to see there is more opportunity than just biology and chemistry and physics, to see that geology is about oil, gas, environmental issues.”</p>
<p>Peterman incorporated a lot of hands-on activities into sessions of her short course, allowing the visiting scholars to split open and work with real sediment cores in EES laboratories. They also took a trip to <a href="http://www.mcconnellsprings.org/" target="_blank">McConnell Springs</a> to learn about karst topography and visited the <a href="http://www.uky.edu/KGS/core_library/" target="_blank">Kentucky Geological Survey Core Barn</a>, where they examined sediment collected from all over the state and left with a box of unique Kentucky rocks.</p>
<p>While Peterman says she was unsure of what to expect from the program, by the end she felt humbled and touched by her experience with the scholars. “I hear about how high school students can be hard to deal with, so I was kind of apprehensive. But these kids were on the ball. They’re the cream of the crop – extremely intelligent, vibrant. When they left it brought tears to my eyes,” she said.</p>
<p>Robinson and Peterman agree that the program is important for demystifying misconceptions students have about college life. As Peterman points out, the shift from the structure of high school to the perceived freedom results in many students running into problems. “They don’t realize there are programs to help them through. This program shows them they aren’t alone,” she explained.</p>
<p>As the visiting scholars settle in to a new academic year, the faculty and staff at UK are looking to the future and hoping for continued collaboration with the Whitney M Young Scholars Program. “I really enjoyed it. It’s awesome to build these connections with the students – the program does so much for us and for them. Our faculty were enamored with the students. It’s a program I hope will continue, and I hope EES will get to participate in it every summer,” said Peterman.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/ees" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ees</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/english" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">english</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/office-institutional-diversity" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">office for institutional diversity</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/martin-luther-king-jr-cultural-center" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">martin luther king jr cultural center</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/stem" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">stem</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-6" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/rynetta-davis" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">rynetta davis</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-7" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/derek-law" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">derek law</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-8" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/cara-peterman" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">cara peterman</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-9" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/rosalyn-robinson" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">rosalyn robinson</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-10" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/judy-jackson" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">judy jackson</a></li></ul></div>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:56:00 +0000brconn2258704 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduOn The Road Againhttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/road-again
<div class="featured-nodes-image"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/On-The-Road-Again.jpg" alt="" /></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div>By Mary Venuto</div>
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<div>Big Blue Nation reaches far past Lexington’s city limits. Across the globe, faculty and students of the <a href="http://www.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">College of Arts &amp; Sciences</a> are always seeking out new endeavors and fortifying existing relationships overseas.</div>
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<div><a href="https://ees.as.uky.edu/users/afryar1" target="_blank">Alan Fryar</a> in the <a href="https://ees.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences</a> (EES) was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Program scholarship by the <a href="http://exchanges.state.gov/" target="_blank">U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs</a>. Through its support of education and research, this program promotes collaboration between the U.S. and other countries to address common priorities and concerns. For his project, Fryar is working with professor Lahcen Benaabidate (Faculté des Sciences et Techniques – Fès) to study the influence of climate change on spring flows in Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains.</div>
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<div><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/resize/20140515_124227%20%281%29-300x169.jpg" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5; width: 300px; height: 169px; margin: 8px; float: right;" width="300" height="169" />Morocco has been in drought since the 1980s, and global climate change is expected to reduce available water resources further. The Middle Atlas plateau is the “water tower” for Morocco’s two largest rivers, the Sebou and the Oum Er Rbia, which originate from springs. These rivers are a major economic resource for the country, so an understanding of the impact of climate change on their source is imperative to long-term water management strategies. </div>
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<div>“Many countries, including the USA, face challenges in supplying sufficient water for human needs while limiting environmental degradation,” said Fryar. </div>
<div>Since March, Fryar and Benaabidate have been measuring water level, temperature, and water chemistry at three large springs, which are used as water supplies for local communities. Initial results of monitoring indicate that the springs do not respond dramatically to snowmelt or rainfall. These observations suggest that the effects of climate change, such as reduced precipitation and increased temperature, on the flow of the springs may be gradual.</div>
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<div>Fryar’s experiences have not been limited to his research. While abroad, Fryar has attended an international conference on use of satellite technology for water resources management. In addition to acquiring new knowledge, Fryar has also been advancing UK Education Abroad by visiting two study abroad sites at universities in Morocco. </div>
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<div>Whether he’s abroad or at UK, Fryar explains that students are crucial contributors to the advancement of his research. </div>
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<div>“I’ve been fortunate to work with a variety of students. The study of water is inherently interdisciplinary and my classes routinely draw students from a variety of majors. I love learning from my students and watching them learn from each other.”</div>
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<div><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/resize/DSC00079edit-300x225.jpg" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5; width: 300px; height: 225px; margin: 8px; float: left;" width="300" height="225" /><a href="http://geography.as.uky.edu/" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">Geography</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;"> professor </span><a href="https://appalachiancenter.as.uky.edu/users/brunn" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">Stan Brunn</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;"> defines China by its fluidity – where no place or time is the same during a week. In a country with centuries’ worth of history combined with recent decades of postmodernism, the past and present are sometimes in sharp contrast side by side. “The dynamism in the countryside, in cities, even in shopping malls is inescapable,” he said. </span></div>
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<div>“This is the third time I am in China, and it is simply a fascinating country to observe changes almost everywhere.” </div>
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<div>Brunn is in Kunming, China, helping faculty and graduate students at Yunnan Normal University accomplish their goals. He is determined to assist faculty and graduate students publish in major international scholarly journals, teach graduate classes, and participate in various research projects. </div>
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<div>“I am working with students and faculty here on several fascinating projects,” said Brunn. “These include social distances among ethnic groups, memoryscapes, social media use by Chinese youth, and the moral geographies of Chinese </div>
<div>youth – just to name a few.”</div>
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<div>6,657 miles away in Cape Town, South Africa, <a href="https://chem.as.uky.edu/users/yates" target="_blank">Steven Yates</a> has been maintaining a collaborative relationship with the University of the Western Cape. He will return again to participate in the fourth “Tastes of Nuclear Physics” workshop this fall.</div>
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<div>Yates, who holds joint professorships in both the <a href="https://chem.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">Department of Chemistry</a> and the <a href="https://pa.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">Department of Physics and Astronomy</a>, explains that the workshop is a place where world-class speakers give lectures to a group of 30 to 40 students.</div>
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<div><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/resize/DSCF4460-300x225.JPG" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5; width: 300px; height: 225px; margin: 8px; float: right;" width="300" height="225" /><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">“They’re bright, talented people,” said Yates, “The only thing that holds them back is the lack of opportunities.”</span></div>
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<div>Nontobeko Khumalo was one of the student attendees of those workshops. She graduated from the University of Zululand with a master’s degree in physics and is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of the Western Cape, and is currently at UK doing research in the university’s renowned facilities. </div>
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<div>“For a ‘young girl’ from a small village (Nongoma) in South Africa, this is a great opportunity. It was a long trip getting here, but it was all worth it. I was welcomed by beautiful weather and everyone I’ve met has been nice. So, I would say Kentucky is blessed with the nicest people in the world,” Khumalo said.</div>
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<div><em><span style="font-size:11px;"><strong>Photos - Top to Bottom:</strong><br />
--Alan Fryar with faculty colleagues from Universite d'Oran (Algeria) on a field trip to examine geology along the Mediterranean coast.</span></em></div>
<div><em><span style="font-size:11px;">--Stan Brunn and a contingent of students during his trip to China in the summer of 2014.</span></em></div>
<div><em><span style="font-size:11px;">--Steven Yates poses with students participating in the "Taste of Nuclear Physics" workshop.</span></em></div>
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<div class="featured-nodes-image"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Mapping-a-New-Course-OLD.jpg" alt="" /></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>By Victoria Dekle and Brian Connors Manke</p>
<p><a href="https://english.as.uky.edu/users/rsho222" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Rachael Hoy</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;"> might be a graduate student in <a href="https://english.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">English</a>, but right now her brain is more focused on mapping than sentence fragments.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">As co-editor of "</span><a href="http://www.as.uky.edu/disclosure" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;"><em>disClosure</em></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">," the graduate student-run journal associated with the </span><a href="http://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Committee on Social Theory</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">, Rachael is busy preparing the 2014 edition of the journal that will examine mapping within current social theory.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">“I have just always had a fascination with space in novels,” she said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">“It’s interesting how space is manipulated for characters, by authors, to rewrite the way that things exist or to show the problems with the way that things exist.”</span></p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/IMG_9802%20-%20edit%20400.jpg" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5; width: 400px; height: 267px; float: right; margin: 7px;" width="400" height="267" /><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Hoy's co-editor is </span><a href="https://english.as.uky.edu/users/crwi228" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Christina Williams</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">, another Ph.D. student in the </span><a href="http://english.as.uky.edu/" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Department of English</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">. Williams is also interested in the ways authors use space to reflect large social changes in their work.</span></p>
<p>They were both drawn to coursework through the Committee on Social Theory because they realized interdisciplinary opportunities are important to their discipline of English. The social theory coursework provides a medium for students in all fields at UK to reach out to individuals with other knowledge and other perspectives who wish to examine the same processes in the world.</p>
<p>Another very unique aspect about the mapping course Hoy and Williams took – it was co-taught by four faculty members inside of the <a href="http://www.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">College of Arts &amp; Sciences</a>.</p>
<p>“One of the class faculty leaders is <a href="https://geography.as.uky.edu/users/jcr228" target="_blank">Jeremy Crampton</a>, who is in the <a href="https://geography.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">Department of Geography</a>, and we started the course by talking about, well, what is a map?” said <a href="https://wrd.as.uky.edu/users/jhri223" target="_blank">Jenny Rice</a>, an assistant professor in <a href="https://wrd.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies</a> and another of the co-faculty members for the course.</p>
<p>“And most people do think, well, I know what a map is. If you think of it even broader than just a map of a space, a map is something that lays over a very undifferentiated area otherwise and tells you what to look at, tells you what you’re seeing,” Rice added.</p>
<p>Crampton said the structure isn’t restricted to only benefitting the students. “No one has a monopoly on good ideas,” he said. “As a proponent of collaborative work I was excited to teach a seminar with faculty from different disciplines.<em>”</em></p>
<p>With the varying perspectives, others took note of the tangible difference at work. “There was an openness to new ideas and an energy in class discussions that are unusual in courses where everyone comes from the same discipline,” said <a href="https://hs.as.uky.edu/users/slarson" target="_blank">Susan Larson</a>, associate professor in the Department of <a href="https://hs.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">Hispanic Studies</a>. <a href="https://mcl.as.uky.edu/users/jnp" target="_blank">Jeff Peters</a>, a faculty member in in the <a href="https://mcl.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">Department of Modern &amp; Classical Languages, Literatures &amp; Cultures</a> and the Division Director of French and Italian Studies rounded out the faculty.</p>
<p>“I have never taught a course like this where we have four different interdisciplinary perspectives on a single subject. And, the benefit of that, especially for graduate students, is that you realize that lots of different people are looking at this subject right now,” Rice said. “Usually in the social theory seminars, it is a very timely topic, and right now mapping is really popular in terms of what people are doing in their research. As much I loved my graduate training, we didn’t have anything quite like this where we got this level of engagement with scholars, and that is just so unique for graduate students here,” she added.</p>
<p>For Hoy and Williams, participating in a course with graduate students from other areas has helped them approach their own subject matter in a new light.</p>
<p>“With literature it’s always good to look at connections with other disciplines,” said Williams. “The social theory certificate is a really nice way to dip my toe into the waters,” said Williams.</p>
<p>“At this stage of our careers, we tend to become so specialized that we isolate ourselves from other disciplines; the social theory seminar provides a place for us to engage with the way other disciplines work and think, enriching the work we do by delving beyond the surface of interdisciplinarity,” Hoy said.</p>
<p>Plus, those pesky sentence fragments aren’t going anywhere.<br /><br /><em>Photo: Rachael Hoy (left) and Christina Williams</em></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/social-theory" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">social theory</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/disclosure" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">disclosure</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/jeff-peters" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">jeff peters</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tag/susan-larson" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">susan larson</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tag/christina-williams" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">christina williams</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5"><a href="/tag/rachael-hoy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">rachael hoy</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-6"><a href="/tag/jenny-rice" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">jenny rice</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-7"><a href="/tag/jeremy-crampton" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">jeremy crampton</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-8"><a href="/tags/english" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">english</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-9"><a href="/tag/wrd" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">wrd</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-10"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-11"><a href="/tag/mcl" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">mcl</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-12"><a href="/tag/hispanic-studies" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">hispanic studies</a></li></ul></div>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:59:47 +0000nrsa222200744 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduGabriel’s Map: Cartography and Corpography in Modern Warhttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/video/gabriel%E2%80%99s-map-cartography-and-corpography-modern-war
<div class="field field-name-field-embed field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Embed code:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">&lt;iframe src=&#039;https://player.vimeo.com/video/59072598?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=7EACDC&#039; width=720 height=405 frameborder=0&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/59072598"></a></p><p></p><p class="first">Dr. Derek Gregory University of British Columbia</p> <p>January 25, 2013 - Social Theory Lecture "Gabriel’s Map: Cartography and Corpography in Modern War"</p><p><strong></strong></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/social-theory" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">social theory</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/derek-gregory" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">derek gregory</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/war" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">war</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tag/cartography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">cartography</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tag/art-war" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">art of war</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5"><a href="/tag/research" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">research</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-6"><a href="/tag/gis" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">gis</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-7"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li></ul></div>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:57:58 +0000Anonymous194459 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduCommunity Connectionhttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/community-connection-0
<div class="featured-nodes-image"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/GISWorkshopFeatureBanner.jpg" alt="" /></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="405" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/45527711?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=7EACDC" width="720"></iframe></p>
<p>Matt Wilson's GIS Workshop at the University of Kentucky builds connections to the community through partnerships with non-profit organizations such as Seedleaf and the Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-asdate field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">10/26/2012 - <span class="date-display-start" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-10-26T15:30:00-04:00">3:30pm</span> to <span class="date-display-end" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-10-26T17:00:00-04:00">5:00pm</span></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-location field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Location:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">White Hall Classroom Building CB 118</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-presenter field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sameh Kotb Abd-Elmabod (Sevilla University)</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags/Keywords: </div><ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-field-event-type field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Type of Event (for grouping events): </div><ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/event-type/geography-colloquium-fall-2012" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Geography Colloquium Fall 2012</a></li></ul></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="calendar_link first last"><a href="/calendar-asdate/month" title="View the calendar.">Calendar</a></li>
</ul>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:43:48 +0000nrsa222186148 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduProvost’s Distinguished Service Professorhttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/provost%E2%80%99s-distinguished-service-professor
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We are also very pleased to announce <a href="https://geography.as.uky.edu/users/gegraitz">Dr. Karl Raitz</a> has been named the Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor. This award is highly competitive and is selected from nominations submitted by the Deans of UK's colleges. Recipients are honored for their consistently high level of achievement in their contributions to their disciplines and the university. The appointment is for three years, and brings a research fund for each of the three years.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/geography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">geography</a></li></ul></div>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:34:04 +0000nrsa222185846 at https://socialtheory.as.uky.eduUK Geography Prof. Kim receives Nystrom Awardhttps://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/uk-geography-prof-kim-receives-nystrom-award
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Professor Daehyun Kim has won the Association of American Geographers J. Warren Nystrom Award for 2012. </p>
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<p>Dr. Nystrom, a distinguished scholar and educator, was Director of the AAG from 1966 to 1979. He established the award to recognize the best academic paper based upon a recent dissertation in geography. Daehyun completed his PhD at Texas A &amp; M University and his research foci include biogeography, coastal and forest ecology, and soil-landform modeling. More specifically he is pursuing issues of bio-geophysical complexity in which he models the relationships between vegetation and soils as they relate in complex and dynamic ways to climate, hydrology, and landforms. His dissertation addressed the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Salt Marsh Vegetation Across Scales, wherein his field-based research became the basis for conceptual and simulation models that illustrate how environmental systems interact to create biogeographic patterns. Our heartiest congratulations to Daehyun on winning this prestigious award!</p>
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